PERSISTING AND VANISHING TRUTH Adore makes the following definitions. A Postulate: a posted beingness. (AS-IS) A Consideration: an added significane usually of a relation between two or more posted beingness. (ALTER-IS) Remember color forms as a kid? They had this black board and a whole mess of bright vinyl color forms that you could put up on the board and they would stick. Well the board is the void. The vinyl color forms are creations, these are postulates, posted beingnesses, no time, no change, no significance, just IS. You post them to the board and they IS. Now on the real board the color forms would stay put once you put them there, so this analogy breaks down at this point because in the static void, if you post a color form, it will vanish shortly thereafter unless you make a consideration about it. A consideration is an added significance usually but not always relating two posted beingnesses to each other. A signficance is who or what created it, when it was created, why it was created, where it was created, what it is used for, what its purpose is, what it is, whether it is good or bad etc. When a thetan first puts up a color form it just IS. It isn't ANYTHING in particular. He puts up a few of these, and they keep vanishing as fast as he puts them up. Then he does something different, he adds significance to a couple of them. He says "This color form is an ashtray, and that color form is a cigarette, and the ashtray is USED to hold the ashes that come off the cigarette and the ashes are CAUSED by the cigarette burning which was caused by this color form I'm gonna call a match over here." There is a process in Scn that has to do with simply naming objects. This is because, although names can be completely arbitrary and mean nothing, usually they signify the considerations that have been placed on an object. You say "This is a car", and wham its use, purpose, history, future, problems, concerns etc all come up to the mind. These are the added significances to the pure unadulterated color form that has been labeled a car. By running this process for a while, pretty soon the significances begin to as-is, and the pure color form is left behind, and pretty soon IT begins to as-is and you get a vanishment of the image in the pc's space. Book and Bottle does this to some pc's, you say pick up the bottle, they say "What bottle?" Hubbard wrote in the PABs something like the following scale. Native State KNOW Nothing created AS-IS Not KNOW Color form posted, vanishing truth ALTER-IS Know About Signficance added, persisting truth NOT-IS Not Know About Denial of persisting truth. ISNESS Wrong Know About Persisting falsehoods Native state is not 'KNOW' in the sense of consciousness-of, or in the sense of know about, it is KNOW HOW TO, able to, natively capable, in the sense that the native quiescing God is fully capable of exercising all of its abilities at any time although none are being exercised at that moment. Those abilities ARE the ability to enage in as-is, alter-is, not-is and is. The state of as-isness is when the static makes its first color form, posts its first beingness, experiences its first consciousness-of color form. This color form, perceived without added signifance is a vanishing truth, because it is what IS, and it won't hang around for long. It's just the way things work. This mechanism is not even created or considered into existence, it is the basic operating mode of the static and its first creation. The as-is state is called NOT KNOW because the static is no longer in the quiescent potential state of total KNOW. It has begun to manifest perceivable color forms and thus to limit itself. ((I disagree with this analysis. The NOT KNOW is actually NOT KNOW ABOUT only born of no added significances rather than force as it is a bit lower tone. - Homer)) The state of alter-is is when the static has a few as-is color forms going and starts to add significances to them, what they are, what they are used for, why he created them. The static begins to KNOW ABOUT it's color forms. All know about is created, fabricated just as the color forms are. These added significances add change, and therefore time, into the scene, thus we get 'dreamtime'. To the degree that the static forgets that the added significances are created arbitrarily and to the degree that the static chooses to BELIEVE that these significances are actually true, to that degree do the altered color forms begin to persist on their own through time. Persistence is an as-is color form altered with significance that is considered to be TRUE. These signifances are called persisting truth. They are a lie in that they are an alteration of the original as-is color forms, but they are truth in that they are the original significances added onto the color forms. It is important to note that the significances added onto the color form are arbitrarily chosen, the color form that got called an ashtray could just have easily gotten called a hockey puck in another round of creation. Thus persisting truths are 'true' only in that they are indeed the first significance added to the object, not that they have any fundamental rightness. After the static has created a persisting scene of color forms and persisting truths added onto them, it can then engage in further alterations. It can either engage in denial of what it knows about, pretending that it doesn't know, which is not-isness. Or it can invent further significances to confound the original significances put on the object. Where at first he said "This is an ashtray used to hold ashes made by me", he later says "This is a paper weight made by Joe". Both not-isness and these second added significances are then called persisting falsehoods. So in order to make something really persist the being needs to do 4 things called the persistence sandwich. 1.) AS-IS, create an as-is color form 2.) ALTER-IS, add a persisting truth to it 3.) NOT-IS, deny the persisting truth 4.) ALTER-IS add another persisting truth which is therefore a persisting falsehood. The being at 4.) thinks he is at 2.) and thus gets into a lot of trouble when he tries to undo it. To vanish any manifesting condition of existence then, one must bring the pc back to the original persisting truth of color form plus added significance, then to separate these as both independent and arbitrary creations, at which point both will become vanishing truths and return to non manifestation. In theory this is true for both physical universe masses and for mental masses in the preclears mind. Remember each being has his own version of the PU, there isn't just ONE that all share, there is a common agreement that makes them all the same across all beings inside it, but each being has his own copy. It is a fantastic alter-is just to claim there is only one PU! It is generally accepted that we don't want to vanish physical universe masses, violating the laws of conservation of matter and energy would have dire consequences on the balance of the universe. Instantaneously removing one marble from the atmosphere of earth would cause a collapsing atmospheric shock wave that could be felt around the planet by any seismographic instrument. But it is desirable to vanish the mental masses that a pc has accumulated over this life and many lives. In the physical universe we only want to find better and original persisting truths so that we can leave the masses standing but not be so lost about them. This we call science. In the pc we certainly do not want to bring the pc only to a persisting truth where the masses still stand. We want a full vanishing truth where the masses disappear completely and forever. This we call auditing. Homer ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Homer Wilson Smith Clean Air, Clear Water, Art Matrix - Lightlink (607) 277-0959 A Green Earth and Peace. Internet Access, Ithaca NY homer@lightlink.com Is that too much to ask? http://www.lightlink.com